With a design process as speedy as the end result itself, Ford’s design team leaned into its digital design expertise and team spirit to create the SuperTruck, which scaled Pike’s Peak 11 seconds quicker than its nearest rival
This year, the International Hill Climb at Pikes Peak was won by a truck. Admittedly, this was no ordinary truck. And no ordinary driver for that matter. The truck Romain Dumas piloted up the Colorado peak was designed by Ford in Dearborn with the express intention of taking on the mountain and winning.
“It had to be a truck,” says Paul Wraith, program chief designer at Ford Motor Company. “We are pretty good at them.” And understandably so. Sales show that for many, Ford is the truck maker in America. A follow-up to the riotous SuperVans project, which reinterpreted the iconic Transit van, this time it is the F-150 that has got the treatment.
Though it has retained its essential truckiness, the Ford F-150 Lighting SuperTruck sits far lower than its namesake, anchored to the tarmac by a truly enormous rear spoiler and a diffuser that must measure around six feet and, rather fittingly for the task at hand, looks like a oversized Alphorn. Equally, the front splitter could double as a JCB front bucket.
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